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Halloysite behaving badly: geomechanics and slope behaviour of halloysite-rich soils

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Moon, Vicki·2016·Clay Minerals
DOI 10.1180/claymin.2016.051.3.09
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Halloysite-rich soils derived from in situ weathering of volcanic materials support steep stable slopes, but commonly fail under triggers of earthquakes or rainfall. Resulting landslides are slideflow processes, ranging from small translational slides to larger rotational failures with scarps characteristic of sensitive soils. Remoulding of failed materials results in high-mobility flows with apparent friction angles of 10–16°. The materials characteristically have high peak-friction angles (∼25– 37°), low cohesion (∼12–60 kN m−2) and plasticity ( plasticity index ∼10–48%), and low dry bulk density (∼480–1,080 kg m−3) with small pores due to the small size of the halloysite minerals. They remain saturated under most field conditions, with liquidity indexes frequently >1. Remoulded materials have limited cohesion (<5 kN m−2) and variable residual friction angles (15°–35°). Halloysite mineral morphology affects the rheology of remoulded suspensions: tubular minerals have greater viscosity and undrained shear strength than spherical morphologies.

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Authors
Moon, V.
Affiliations
University of Waikato (NZ)
Corresponding author
Moon, Vicki
ORCID
Moon, Vicki
Venue
Clay Minerals
Publisher
Mineralogical Society
Published
2016-06
Volume
51
Issue
3
Pages
517-528
ISSN
  • 0009-8558 (ISSN-L)
  • 1471-8030
DOI
10.1180/claymin.2016.051.3.09
OpenAlex
W2533830659
Cited by
37
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FWCI
6.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 580 d)
Locations
Clay Minerals (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Clay minerals and soil interactions
Keywords
halloysite, slope stability, landslides, remolding, shear strength, residual friction angle, cohesion, mineral morphology, clay rheology, volcanic weathering, sensitive soils, undrained shear strength

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